--- title: Some snakes have venom, a poison made in glands in the head and push… — Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers… · tree and pragmatics description: Some snakes have venom, a poison made in glands in the head and pushed into a bite through hollow or grooved teeth called fangs. Who acts: snakes, hollow teeth. A sentence of the lesson «Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers and rattlesnakes» of the biology course of Mova's primary school --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/322-snakes-to-keep-away-from-cobras-mambas-vipers-and-rattlesnakes/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mamb…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/322-snakes-to-keep-away-from-cobras-mambas-vipers-and-rattlesnakes/) / 0 # Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers and rattlesnakes, sentence 0 Some snakes have venom, a poison made in glands in the head and pushed into a bite through hollow or grooved teeth called fangs. **Who acts:** snakes, hollow teeth · **What happens:** have, make, push, groove, call · **To what, where:** venom, poison, glands, bite, fangs · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers and rattlesnakes» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snakes, hollow teeth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:322-snakes-to-keep-away-from-cobras-mambas-vipers-and-rattlesnakes.lesson:0 # text = Some snakes have venom, a poison made in glands in the head and pushed into a bite through hollow or grooved teeth called fangs. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 322-snakes-to-keep-away-from-cobras-mambas-vipers-and-rattlesnakes.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 venom venom NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 poison poison NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 8 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 glands gland NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 pushed push VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 into into ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 bite bite NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 through through ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 20 hollow hollow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 grooved groove VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 conj _ _ 23 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 24 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 acl _ _ 25 fangs fang NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 xcomp _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | some snakes | venom | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent venom=Patient | | 2 | **make** | participle | | a poison *not said here* | | glands in the head | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **push** | participle | | | | a bite | | through hollow teeth | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into bite=Destination | | 4 | **groove** | participle | | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **call** | participle | hollow teeth *not said here* | fangs | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:322-snakes-to-keep-away-from-cobras-mambas-vipers-and-rattlesnakes.lesson:0`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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